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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Congo - Kinshasa	France
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	51,181	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	52,782	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	54,453	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	56,170	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	57,860	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	59,599	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	61,474	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	63,479	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	65,590	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	67,800	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	70,114	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	72,550	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	75,138	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	77,792	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	80,534	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	83,368	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	86,229	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	89,193	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	92,209	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	95,232	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	98,320	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	101,499	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	104,767	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	108,171	68,387

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.